Surprise surprise for Klopp, may be the strongest lineup for liverpool at Anfield minus Mane, yet no progress!! Welcome to the premier league Klopp, 2 years here and you still dont know the value of playing tough football and long balls!! Bravo that will get you the sack in next few months

And did you guys watched Klopp's post match interview, still complaining about Manchester united!!! Ffs he lost both home and away to Southampton, and still prattling about a game completely unrelated. Need to remind him that we were hampered many times this season by referee decisions but Jose chose to shut up, yet this clown is at it again and him and Wenger always get away with it. Truly embarrassing

Hull falls tonight and were one step closer. It won't be easy, Southampton haven't conceded a goal throughout the competition. Read a quote from Jose saying martial hasn't taken his chance. I find that somewhat odd, people have pointed out maybe something going on behind the scenes. Whatever it is I hope we're more patient with him and allow him grow, same goes for him too ,better off here so should bide his time. Left to me he starts most games but alas.....
That'd be one talent I'd be pissed if mismanaged or asked to move on to get "playing" time

" Read a quote from Jose saying martial hasn't taken his chance. I find that somewhat odd, people have pointed out maybe something going on behind the scenes"

I think it's not as simple as Martial simply not taking his chances. Earlier in the season yes. But he improved significantly in December. And this also goes back to my previous four attackers formula. Martial will play better if he has less defensive duties. You're mistaken about what I said earlier. When I was making arguments about Martial and Rashford back then they were playing with three other attackers mostly. So they were not being played as wingbacks or proper wingers as you claimed. Mata was playing in front of Pogba and Herrera. And that's what I'm talking about.

I read the article also and Jose said he hasn't taken his chances which is 100% correct because he's had a lot of chances AND while I disagree with Jose, he also said, when you don't take your chances, you can't start playing a player all the time, others has to get their chances too, this could be applied at the beginning of the season since he started a lot of games and did not take it by the stroll. so maybe the article is old?

and if not

for me Martial did start taking his chances ,scoring and assisting etc and playing much much better and this is why it's hard to agree with Mr. Mourinho., although he's partially right.
I hope to goodness he and Martial does not mess this good thing up. Martial should be the first name on the team sheet, I fuckin love that player!

@mirain
"they were playing with three other attackers mostly, So they were not being played as wingbacks or proper wingers as you claimed"
exactly, the only time they were played as that, it was against Liverpool, beyond that, we rarely played them too deep, if only required.
and we've been since then and even before the pool game on a good streak of 17 games, including some games with a #10 of Mata but mostly with a 3 man midfield and by mostly I mean 75% of the time.

Little disheartening the Martial comments hopefully it's just a motivational thing,he would definately be better off playing in his natural position but how can u drop Ibra.He may feel aligned after losing his spot and his number.I thought he'd improved also and was surprised he wasn't even on the bench st Stoke.

You know what's funny. If memphis ha dbeen what we expected, Martial would habe played last season as an attacker but since he got mobed to the left where he played even at monaco, he tool that spot with a rocket and was absolutely amazong. So he can definitely play there

As for losing his spot, well he hasn't lost his spot but is so inconsitent this season and that left spot is there to be taken. dont consider him as a striker this season.
also i thought he has improved and he indeed has but i guess the lad hasn't in the mind of Jose. we'll see what kind of an attitude Martial posses to play for us. Will he sulk and just go or will he believe in Joses vision and become what Jose expexts him to be. All in all, Jose has talked highly about him, many many times.

So it's not that Jose don't rate him, but somethig is going on up there.

Martial will get more chances
Mourinho gave a reasonable answer, and it's okay for some fans to subjectively disagree.
Memphis is gone, but we are still overbooked in those wing forward positions.
We all have our different opinions on what our best 11 should look like, some of that informed by reputation, others by form and frankly, conscious or unconscious bias.
If he plays,some will say why not Lingard.
If Mikhi plays, others may say why not Mata.
If Mata plays with both, some will say where is Carrick?

I was okay with the team picked against Stoke (except Fellaini, although I said at the time I saw why he was chosen, without justifying it). My problem, and we all have one or another, is why doesn't he even make the 18 when he falls off the starting 11...

The answer is...Rashford, Rooney and Lingard...they all came on and made some difference.

on my way to catch a train this morning I saw the papers and it said 1-0 to The saints and I was genuinely flawed. I actually though Slipperpool would do this n we get to meet them in a bitter war to the death in the final and then whoop their sorry hindes, alas it was not to be as the saints put them to the sword.

Klopp is one manager I never ever rated even when he was at Dortmund always looked like serial rapist/creep to me (he is not btw).

What's it with Liverpool and loosing semi/finals, those guys couldn't win a trophy if their lives depended on it, However am glad they failed as they always do only a matter of time before they slip to their usual 6th or 7th in the league, Klopp, _Pep, these guys thought they could come here n boss on us all...lol..cant wait for Messi to come to Citeh in EPL and end up scoring 3 goals the entire season n then flee to china the next....

on the martial thing...err I think he,s proven himself to be an excellent striker, I watch the games he played and I really don't see whats he,s done wrong that many others haven't i.e missed chances to score e.t.c

I fear he is leaving in the summer, not shedding tears or nothing but he,s a good lad and did very well last season then a new manager comes in n he,s number taken from him n then he benched even when he scores two goals the previous game, not sure what else the kid has to do.

in any case its all United whatever happens as long as United is successful I shall be happy.

Also think the team should visit Mason in hospital after they demolish Hull, the guy a trooper and I wish him speedy recovery

it is an endless debate, but let's be frank, if all in form, the trio up front is dead certain
Martial Ibra Mkitharian
we all know Rooney Lingard RAshford and Mata should be squad rotation players in that 433, and if we go on a 4231 with a #10, Mata has to be that #10 while Martial and Mkitharian are on the flanks. we all know this. but if only football would be that simple or Jose would not be that harsh on Martial

we all know this, but also the mere fact of what Martial did last season, carrying us to everywhere on his shoulders at the age of 19-20. but the truth is, he got his chances and then was very bad, then he was reborn, played some scored and assisted some, then dropped.

if anything. he has to be on the bench. if he gets dropped for a reason or 2, put him on the bench ahead of Jesse Messi, it is what it is, Jesse should be behind the pecking order if it's between who to sit on the bench. BUT what Jose is trying to do here, is keep everyone happy. and of course based on last season Martial feels he's unimportant and then all kind of problems happens

“I don’t think he lost his focus,” Mourinho said ahead of the game with Hull City on Thursday.

“I just think he didn’t catch with both hands a big opportunity he had. When we spoke about Memphis Depay [leaving United] we spoke about it being the only position where we have an over-booking of players.

“We have still five players for this position. I cannot give one player chances to play and kill the others. To kill the others, I think I already did that with Memphis by considering him the last option and by not giving him any option. But with the other guys I think you would be asking me why Mata is not playing or why Marcus Rashford doesn’t have a chance, or why Jesse Lingard, a national team player, is not playing.

“We have Rashford, Lingard, Mata, Mkhitaryan and Martial, and I cannot give the same player chance after chance after chance and not consider the effort of the others.

“Anthony played against Liverpool, a big match for us and a big match for him, too. Then the next game I went to Mata and Mkhitaryan. This is the situation.”

The quartet of Yorke, Cole, Solskjaer & Teddy was always rotated. Getting rotated doesn't mean you are dropped. In most part, its the media blowing things up, crying that players are "dropped".

Yes Martial was not involved against Stoke, but he will definitely be involved soon, every man and his dog knows that. Thats called rotation, not dropped. Being dropped is Memphis, Schneiderlin, Schweini & to a certain extend, Rooney. The difference is night & day